Remarks by Joanna Katz
234 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 10
- Play at 32:49
“Yeah, people might have kennels or crates or things.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 32:56
“No, it's a good idea actually. Cats can be a pet too. Pet lending.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 34:53
“That's a different topic. It would have to be one of us. Rita wants to be the person. She would do all the communicating.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 35:30
“Yes. You want to first recap it? Yes, I'll recap Rita. brought this to the group. I think it's something that would be beneficial to our town. Most people have limited storage. Most people live in garages. It would be a lending sort of library of things, like let's say a pasta maker, a sewing machine, garden tools, whatever it is that you don't necessarily use every day, but you would like to use every once in a while. We've Talked about a few different places we could put it. I did talk to the vice mayor and she thought it might be a great idea when we do take over the house that we are…”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 36:47
“So it's really not going to be a person, it's going to be the towns, and we would have a sort of contract that, you know, if it's not misused, and it just breaks, if you can tell it's not, then it's just part of our cross of doing business. If something's been misused, obviously, or lost, then we would have to come up with some kind of penalty, or charge sort of like a library book. So, I think that's, I've done a little bit of research, but I can do more research. A lot of other municipalities are doing this, and we'll find out what they do. And so, it's a contract too, so people have to be…”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 38:08
“I have so many things. My 10% tent. Exactly.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 38:12
“I think we would have maybe Frank help us put into the Gazette something like we're starting this thing if you have useful items like maybe get some examples and then we can be a little bit selective too. But if it's useful I know I've mentioned it at book club people are like I have a toss machine I would love to you know so things like that I don't think we're going to have to buy everything because I think there will be things that for sure people and we can we can together come up with a list of things we would love to do and I think you're right like garden stuff I can't say how many…”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 39:13
“We don't know. We could start small if we wanted to just try it out with like five things, possibly at the 96th Street Park or something we could do. Are all of those sheds in the park full?”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 39:38
“We don't know when it's going to be open.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 39:43
“Part of me thinks we should maybe see if we can get it started in a small way somewhere, and then once the building is available, then we pitch that we want a whole wall and we can expand it, but just to see how it works and work out the kink. Sure.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 40:56
“I think a lot of it will depend on if it's somewhere where there is actual staff or not. And if, you know, without staff, I think it's just completely honor system. Maybe there's a camera. And it's basically, it's like a notebook almost. And you do a little paperwork and you sign and you write what you're taking out. And then it's... That's just very honor system because I'm assuming they're not going to have a staffing placement.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 41:45
“Yeah, I mean, through the chair, my son worked that tennis center for years in high school, and there's really not a lot to do. He did a lot of homework, so it might be a good thing to start.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 43:03
“I think we're definitely I had my book club last night in my backyard and I can tell you that it is such a community building thing to be able to get together I think it should be encouraged to be very co-ed because I think book clubs tend to for some reason be mostly women I don't know why that's been the case but I think we can really have a great opportunity here to bring the community together for something that's so wonderful, just talking about books. And I believe if we want to try to partner with Books and Books, maybe they can get us something at a discount. We could purchase the…”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 45:04
“We have a few authors who live here. Oh, yeah.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 45:22
“I think it's a great idea to have maybe Surfside authors, especially for the first few.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 45:54
“We'd love to say eventually we have that house. It's another great opportunity to do the book club there. But in the meantime, we could do it at the community center.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 46:26
“I think we could start with researching if Books and Books wants to in some way partner with us and help us. Either we procure the books or we get a discount for people to get the books. And the other thing would just be to start deciding who the first author would be and when it's going to be.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 46:49
“Maybe I feel like we could do four weeks, but that can be six weeks to read a book.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 47:25
“And we can talk about the different authors. We have Camilo. And we have the woman that I blanked on her name. Ana Menendez. And we have... Who's the second one?”
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- Play at 48:43
“So Anna, she has a collection of short stories. In Cuba, I was a German shepherd.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 48:57
“Yeah, I think that's, yeah. She has a lot, so... Maybe we start with her. She seems really well accomplished and something that we can... Yeah, accessible.”
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- Play at 50:17
“So I think until the house is ready, that's where I think we all envision it eventually for now. It would be probably in the fishbowl, I think.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 50:28
“It's really just talking about... If the author can be there, that would be great.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 50:41
“Yeah, if the author's there, we'll let them sort of direct the way. Sometimes the back of the book has questions. We can have someone interviewing them, but yeah, if the author's not there, then we can just look up.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025
- Play at 51:17
“We can just have light refreshments before dinner.”
Community Relations Board · Nov 13, 2025